· Private foundation
Birdsong Trust Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| SUFFOLK YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOC | $25,000 |
| WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC | $17,591 |
| NANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION | $8,000 |
| HOPE FOR SUFFOLK | $7,375 |
| PROJECT LIFESAVER | $3,547 |
| SUFFOLK MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,296 |
| SUFFOLK CHEER FUND | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NSNANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $191k · revenue +76%
- SYSUFFOLK YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue +65%
- FIFORKIDS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- PDPAUL D CAMP COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $24k
- SNSuffolk Nansemond Historical Societyone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -22%
- BCBENNETT'S CREEK LITTLE LEAGUEone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Is to support suffolk public schools by connecting the community's talents and resources to expand educational opportunities for students and staff.
A historical society that provides educational programs, a museum, and a library for the benefit of students, researchers and the general public.
To unite public, private and community partners to ensure safety, healing and justice for children and families impacted by violence, exploitation and abuse.
To advance and promote the civic betterment and general welfare of the City of Suffolk and exploit the natural resources and opportunities of the community, its trade and commerce, and its educational life, by providing recreation and…
The suffolk community college foundation's mission is to support student access to quality education and vocational skill training by providing scholarships, emergency loans and funding for program development. additionally, the foundation…
Provide shelter, care, and treatment to homeless animals in the city of portsmouth community through permanent adoptions, spay/neuter programs, and community education.
Support of local and international charities
Operation of a public library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suffolk Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Suffolk Youth Athletic Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NANSEMOND SUFFOLK ACADEMY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TIDEWATER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK YOUTH ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL DISTRICT READS INC ↗
- Who funds NANSEMOND RIVER PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Suffolk Nansemond Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR SUFFOLK ↗
- Who funds Suffolk Cheer Fund ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFESAVER INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUFFOLK & ISLE OF WIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds RIDDICKS FOLLY ↗
- Who funds Suffolk Christian Fellowship Center ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Birdsong Charitable Foundation · Suffolk Foundation · Obici Healthcare Foundation Inc · Mary C Henninger Haddad and Louis S Haddad Foundation Inc · The Pruden Foundation · The Blocker Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Community Action Coalition · Richard Bennett Trust · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · United Way of South Hampton Roads
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Birdsong Trust Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.